When I was a baby a doctor told my mum I was blind. I wasn’t blind, of course, but I did have nystagmus. Now I’m ten and I’ve still got nystagmus. This is how I see the world through wobbly eyes …
At half term my brother went go-karting. He was so excited about it. I went along to watch, but it was very boring and very cold., so I went and sat in the car. On the way home he just wouldn’t shut up about it. All he did was drive the stupid go-kart round and round the track hundreds of times. Apparently one of the instructors told him he was a ‘natural’ driver and might turn out to be another Michael Schumacher one day. Big deal! I’ll probably never be able to drive a go-kart or a car, because of my nystagmus.
Extract of a diary first published in FOCUS magazine in March 2002.
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